A preliminary investigation into the demise of Hayden Panettiere, a 36-year-old actress identified for her work within the TV reveals “Nashville” and “Heroes,” didn’t produce proof of “foul play or suspicious circumstances,” the Greenville, S.C., Police Division mentioned in a press release on Monday.
Emergency responders discovered a lady in cardiac arrest on Sunday at an house advanced west of downtown Greenville, the Greenville County Coroner’s Workplace mentioned in a press release on Monday. Regardless of superior cardiac life assist measures, the assertion mentioned, the lady was pronounced useless at 2:32 p.m. She was later recognized as Ms. Panettiere.
The cardiac arrest was attributable to an obvious drug overdose, in line with an individual with data of the scenario who spoke on the situation of anonymity to debate an persevering with investigation.
An post-mortem carried out on Monday confirmed no indicators of trauma that contributed to the demise, the assertion by the coroner’s workplace mentioned. The trigger and method of demise stay pending, and it might take as much as three months for the complete post-mortem outcomes to be returned.
The Police Division mentioned that an acquaintance of Ms. Panettiere’s referred to as 911 simply earlier than 2 p.m. on Sunday however didn’t disclose the identification of the caller.
The particular person with data of the scenario mentioned that Ms. Panettiere was with Brian Hickerson, a former boyfriend, on the time of her demise. It was unclear whether or not he referred to as 911.
Makes an attempt to achieve Mr. Hickerson weren’t instantly profitable. A lawyer listed for him in a latest courtroom submitting didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
In line with Ms. Panettiere’s memoir, “This Is Me: A Reckoning,” which she revealed this 12 months, she met Mr. Hickerson in 2018 in Los Angeles. The 2 dated on and off for a number of years. Court docket information present that in 2021, Mr. Hickerson pleaded no contest to 2 felony counts of injuring Ms. Panettiere.
On Monday, no less than three police vehicles have been parked close to the house advanced, the Judson Mill Lofts, as a information media helicopter hovered above. Nick Simmons, the property’s supervisor, mentioned in a press release that the advanced was “cooperating totally with the suitable authorities.” He added, “Out of respect for the person concerned, their household and the privateness of our residents, we’re not capable of present any further data or remark at the moment.”
Ms. Panettiere first appeared onscreen as an toddler, appearing in a business when she was 11 months previous. Her breakout position got here in 2000, when she performed a coach’s daughter within the Denzel Washington-led “Bear in mind the Titans.”
She went on to search out acclaim in a pair of TV sequence: as a highschool cheerleader with a supernatural capacity to regrow her physique elements in “Heroes” (from 2006 to 2010) and as a rising music star in “Nashville” (which ran from 2012 to 2018). Ms. Panettiere additionally appeared in two sequels of the “Scream” horror motion pictures.
It was little secret that Ms. Panettiere had struggled with psychological well being points and drug and alcohol abuse. She advised The New York Occasions in 2023 that at one level in her life she would often get up shaking. When she was not consuming alcohol, she mentioned, she was taking opioids in hopes of not consuming.
Ms. Panettiere additionally mentioned that she had suffered from physique dysmorphia because of invasive tabloid press protection when she was a young person.
Nick Madigan contributed reporting from Greenville, S.C. Alain Delaquérière contributed analysis.